MISCELLA31EOUS EXTRACTS. DBSTRUCTIVEB STonit.--The rort Denison Ti1 records a series of disasters which have lately tss place at the Lower Burdekin. About the sametic last year.s aheavy flood carried the schooner it Friends into a mangrove scrub, leaving her high . dry. On :'the 8th ult., about .10 p.m., a fu?~ hurricane broke over the same locality, appare coming in an E.B.E. direction, duing an immn amount of damage, in fact about as much as it co 'do, as it either totally or partially destroyed theh buildings erected there. Emerson's publicehonaa a 'well-nigh levelled with the ground, clothing and o. light articles carried away a distance of more than! quarter of a mile. Six sheets of iron were rent torn down from the store, together with the bstte to which they were fixed by 3in. nails. RochIfo public-house "was rendered a complete wreck, 5r Hogarth and Hume's store suffered the samen Allan's-store escaped with the exception of the r which want, flying away, on the wings of the ...

- A··I1~ Tw----)--- n- LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. 1 AGRICULTURnALAnEn.vs.-Amoingsttheareas thrown, open for selection and leasing :at fMelbourne is one in 1oranding contaning f 5,630 acres, and the date it first opens is the,2Ind of iMy. .It; includes,-part iothe ,t -parish of G-oldie, .watered by: tribrteRit f of the Deep Creek, extending from one to i four miles east and from one to 31 miles, ' north of the township of ILanetid;d .and d(escribecl as folloWs.-" Agriclfturllea'df t Morauding, coutics of Bourke and IDl'housie' b parish of Goldie, situated at and extending. ( from one to foar miles castward and from; l one to three miles and a half north from the. i township of Libeeficed; Commiecinfig at'a a point on the Deep Creek intersectd.I by the j eastern boundary line of thetowiiship of Lan ccfield; thencenortherlv by said e'stern bouu dary and a line 'three niles' fiftive chains, more or less; thence easterly by northern boundary of surveyed lands in the parish of Goldie four miles ...

A~MERICA. . Il 11 *-c-- -· · o TIlE LATE PVACE .:EGOTIr.TIONS. a t We have by the mail news from New c York to the 11th 'ehbrturv. President Lin-. V coln's account of the late peace negotiations t was received in C'on. _nc,. en the 10th.,- It is h of considerable lner.th, ,nd is very "complete i. in its details, -n :rr, eting the circumstance of c Mr. Blair's visit to Richmond, and supplying tl all the dispatches preliminiarv to the meeting e: of the President with the Confederate Com-. o missioners in IHampton Roads, asm well as e: giving a report cf tle proceedings of the con- b ferenee itself. Thnuzh lMr. Blair went to b Richmond with the consent of the Govern- ! ment, he had no autthoritv to speak or act. for it. Mr. Dav-i sent a. letter bh him ex pressing his wil!inw ess to send or receive h commissioners, annd Mr. Lin cln subsequlntlvy i stated his wiln-lu es to rrceive gentleieni t informally cho:, on behalf of tihe Caoifetd: d erates, with the ,ibjeoct of securing peace on t...

3MEN-POODLES. FROM THE LEIDER. There are men, or creatures like men, and in Melbcurne many of them, whose best clas sification is that of poodle-men. Your ge. nuine man poodle is a bachelor; he is :n the shady side of forty, or thereabouts, and usu ally lives at a club. The best bred species of poodle-men are Government officials ; I don't mean of the clerkly sort, but of that which allows a fair exercise o: personal indepen dence, and a very considerable treedon from control. TI:e man-poodle, as I have said, is u~uallv well advanced into middle life. He has never wired in the sense that other men do. Inconstancy of attachment is a characteristic of quadruped poodles, as well as a disposition to freeboot amongst the other sex. Your man-poodle is in no respect different. Living at a club, wifeless, his sympathies wander to the wives of other men. The man-poodle is generally to be seen run ning at the heels of some fair dame. Envious of the felicity of Benedick, he endeavours to sham ...

MoD?AY, APRIL24. Present:-I The Mayor, and Councillork Sugden, Iludson, Areus and Thomas. Theiminutes of the previous meeting were readdan confirmed. Councillor Arcus brought up a repoi t of proceedings of the Conference Meeting, held at Laffln's hotel, on the 18tih instant, and on the motion of the MLyor, seconded by Coun cillor Hludson, it wai received. Some conversation0 took A1ace relative to a tendcr accepted last meeting for laying wattr. pipes. Mir. Dean, the person whose tender vwas accepted, was willing to take up the contract for laying the pipes without main tenance." On the motion of Councillor Sugden , seconded by Councillor Thomas, fresh tenders were ordeled to be called by next meeting I for the laying and maintenance of the water Accounts as follows were passed for pay inent:-Town Clerk, £8 Gs. Sd..; Town Sifr veyor, ':s 8d; Bate Collector, £1210s3 Sd. ThI'en'feetiiig theintdjournel.

-0--s--- TSIUISD~A , AP1ITL 27, 11333. A: ."1i) T ABOUT lISEERVOLh 1M) TIHE STFAM PL9OUI I . Tin he been a ifearfU AM I-' for dr ug1lt :snd bukh fires, 2ad tbie ntve.rity of Colkleting the storms water in articiCL ru rvoirs has been madIe painflilly app,:treat, whethier fur tug eit.inRuL.hii;' +if tirc;t:, thwt irti rn (R f I the lad, or fbr mill purpose?., rnd we? rwie i to think t :'r the Govcrnment. on their ?. ti , "ac , have -'_ct ;as.de . a larg sum of iŽnc. with :uoh vies-:, ;which, X.:ol i co untow;.ri 1e0i: u occur I: twcn thei t'.o liouses of itP:::liacnt--ic cc queni oe cfthlunnexatcun I of the iropo'ed New Tnmifi "ill to the Ap p propriatiou Act-will no doubt become avail able. At any rate we :,hould pre-s upon the various municipal and other corporatebodies' the necessity of iiot losing sight of this pro posed boon to the Australian settler. That which is not continuously suplphed in this jcli~Kh? by fiatu re must be supplied by oui intelligence and our united action. A...

DEATH OF CARDINAL 3VISE3IAN. A seriou3 illness, which from the flrst reemed likegl to prove fatal, has terminated the career of iicholas, Cardinal 3Wiscmuan, lie died on Wednesday. moi-n{g Feb. tlith; in the 63rd year of his age. The deceased was greatly respected by all classes and ile. nominations, as evinced during his illness, when daily inquiries were made by the re spected of every creed? The great ability, research, eloquence, and dignity of the de ceased cardinal 'were rcdognised by iall who admired intelleceual vigour; and his demise has caused in the ranks of science a: gaii not easily filled up. We extract from "Men of the Time" the followingbiographicalketch; of Cardinal 'Wiseman : Cairdinal Nicholas Wideman, the chief of the Roman Catholic Church in Eng!and, was of mixed Iriih aud Spanish ,extraction, and was born at Seville in If12. At an early' age he was brought to England, and placed in St. Cuthbert's College, Ushaw, near Dur. hamn. lie vas thence removed to the Eng...

THE IRISH CHURCH. The following extract from the "Irish &amp;nbsp; Times" of a speech of Mr. S:clly's in the &amp;nbsp; House of Commons, on Tuesday, February 14th, will serve to show the state of the Es- tablished Church in Ireland :— "Mr. Scully rose to call attention to the &amp;nbsp; recent exer.i-ie of public patronage with re ference to the benefices or parr'hes of Clon priest. F'rrahy, a?ni Carrigrohae, in the county of Cork; and to move for returns, in tabular form, -hogin as to each of those be nefiec~ cir pariste'-the date of the last per sent.ttion; the name or title of the patron ; the ra?re of t:he present incumbent; the an nual value il,::ding any glebe or glebe house : the chu-c'h accommodation; and the paputtion *. cec rdicg to the Government ernsus r,t" l?31 and 1561 respectively; dis tirguishi g :. :o each parrsh the number of Protestants from the Roman Catholics. He said that these three benefices offered a very fair saml lJ- of the general condition o...

ADV ERTISEI3ENTS, SPRINGFIELD ROAD DISTRICT. ELECTION NOTICE. j MEETING of the ELECTOR3 of the.abore .1 district will be hela at the edice of the Board, y'tude at MhJ.rne'a Store, Sprirgfiell, on Friday, the]9t9 day of May, 1865, fr the purple of Ei EC - INGONE ME EIeER for toe Sp-ingfie!d Disrtie: Road Board, in the place of Mr. Garret Oahll,. who re-igned. Nominations of candir'ates fir election r'ust be delivered to the undermigun? at his resi'ence, Piought Inn, Lancefield Road, on or b-fore Tnursday, the 11th May insr. Nom'na?lono to be maere in acncordance with the provisionsa ccntained in the 8- end 8·5 see ions of the I ?ccal Gortrnment Acr, ~7 Vi,'oria No. 176 MARTIN FORD. Returning Ofli?er. Springfi Id Road B'Ird Office, 4th May, 1865. LANCEFIELD AND SPRINGFIELD ROAD BOARDS. - TENDERS. TENDERS will be received by the above Boards up to two o'clock p.m. on MONDAY, the 8th inst, (at Shee-en's Royel Mail hotel, R ms-y) for the ERECTION of a ERIDGE over the D ep Creek. Plans an...

DARING ESCAPE AND RECAPTURE. The inhabitants of Maryborough were dis turbed in the course of their usual business avocations, on Wednesday afternoon, at about half-past two o'clock, by a violent ringing of the gaol bell, followed by a rush of several policemen towards the scene of commotion. On making enquiries as to- the cause of the uproar, we learned that a prisoner named John Clinton, who was committed for trial at the Majorca Police Court, on the 24th of February last, on the charge of burglary and attempt to murder Dr. Southee, on whose premises the burglary was committed, had made his escape by scaling the outer wall of the gaol. The first alarm was given by the ringing of the bell, and Mr. Shegog, the senior-turnkey, who was engaged in the garden, caught sight of the absconder as he was making off, and suspecting something different from the ordinary course of events, made after him on foot. Mir. Gifford at this moment came up, and, with M:r. Hutchinson, warder Gaynor, and o...

IISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS. The following is a recipe for the c:u'e of diptheria, from one who has assured us that ,ut of a thousand cases in which it has been u-.-1l not a single patient has been lost. The treatment consists in thorojighly swabbing the back of the mouth and throat with a wash made thus-table salt, two drachms ; black pepper, golden seal, nitrate of potash, alum, one drachm each. Mix and pulverise, put into a teacup, which half fill with boiling water, and then fill up with good vinegar. Use every half hour, one, two, and four hours, as recovery progresses. The patient may swallow a little each time. Apply one ounce each of spirits of turpintine, sweet oil, and aqua ammonia, mixed, every four hours, to the whole of the throat, and to the breast bones, keeping flannel to the part.-New York Daily News. The Tarrangowar Times says-'" A ras cally young thief, ewho has long been a nuis ance to a certain locality, got well punished thle other day. A well-known tradesman of _Ml...

OUR BOROUGII REPRESENATIVES. TO TUE EDITOl. TUE TREE PRESS. Sxn,--As a ratepayer, may I ask permis sion of you to insert a few remarks of mine on the conduct of our Borough representa tives. I war'soI~ bwhat surprised at the man ner in which some'bf these "immaculates" treated your application for a share of the advertisements arising from the business of the Council. How unfortunately for rou to have been an Irishman; had you hailed from any other quarter I presume you would be received more favourably. But, "beg from beggars and you will never be rich." In deed I could scarce credit that any body of men assembled to represent the public inte rest of Kilmore could come to such a one sided, not to say prejudiced conclusion. Suppose the Irish composed a majority in the Council, what would the other portion of the ratepayers think if they were to exclude the " Examiner" and give all the advertise ments to the "Free Press ?" Would they not rise with one voice against such an un warrant...